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Sundance Review: Twinless Doubles Up Dylan O’Brien in Unpredictable, Dark Comedy
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Twinless starts like a prototypical Sundance movie––grim and serious, plus unexpected levity. That’s the general formula for a festival that might as well have manufactured the term “dramedy.” In this case there’s an offscreen car accident and quick cut to a...
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Sundance Review: Together Traps Alison Brie and Dave Franco in Relationship Horror
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Early in Michael Shanks’ directorial debut Together, Millie (Alison Brie) warns her boyfriend Tim (Dave Franco) that if they don’t “split up” now, it’s only going to be harder later. She didn’t know how right she was about that. After...
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FIRST WORD ON HORROR Exclusive Clip: Horror Author Paul Tremblay
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Movies start with the written word. Without a filmaker or screenwriter putting their ideas down on paper or screen there is no foundation for a vision. Countless times a year literary works are being optioned or adapted to film, their...
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What to Watch on Netflix: February 2025
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Links to reviews of the biggest titles on Netflix this month.
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The Unloved, Part 134: The Better Angels
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Our series on unloved films gets to A.J. Edwards' Lincoln drama.
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NBC’s “The Hunting Party” is One of the Most Insulting Network Shows in Years
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It’s a show produced by algorithms and focus groups, a product with no pulse whatsoever.
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THE MONKEY Review: This Toy Is Scary As Hell And It Means Business
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After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most nihilistic short stories in The Monkey. Revamping the story from a morose, chaotic, paranoid...
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11 Films to See in February
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With Sundance wrapped up, much of February’s attention toward the world of cinema will be on Berlinale. This month certainly isn’t stacked for new releases, but there’s a handful of gems and highlights worth having on your radar. 11. Bring...
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Sundance Review: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a Poetic Celebration of the Past, Present, and Future of Black Culture
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Celebrating and condensing centuries of Black history that would take more than a few lifetimes for any scholar to thoroughly ascertain in totality, Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions eschews dryly academy ethnographic study to deliver a kaleidoscopic, vigorous, engrossing...
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Rotterdam 2025 Review: LILIM Makes You Look Under The Bed
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam has a healthy relationship with Asian genre cinema. In the past it was basically the go-to place for fans to check it out, and the (in)famous "Rotterdämmerung" part of the festival provided anime, horror and...
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